The fourth annual symposium of University of Brighton’s Postgraduate Design History Society
The University of Brighton’s Postgraduate Design History Society held its fourth annual symposium on Friday 19 June 2009 at the Centre for Research and Development, Grand Parade, University of Brighton. The day featured six papers from MA and PhD researchers from within and beyond the university, across a range of topics and historical periods, united by our common focus of design history and material culture studies.
10.00am: Registration
10.30am: Welcome
10.45-11.45am: Revisiting history
Charlotte Nicklas - The Degenerate Desire to be Costumed in the Latest Mode: Fashionable dress and the past in the nineteenth century
Yunah Lee - Recollection of the Past: Contemporary performance of the Korean traditional wedding ceremony
11.45-12.00pm: Discussion
12.00-1.00pm: Lunch (provided)
1.00-2.00pm: Materialising Memory
Anthony McIntosh - Public Monuments: Memory, manifestation and the accumulated significance of place
Ruth Cribb - Dirty words? Assistants and assistance in the making of British sculpture in the early twentieth century
2.00-2.15pm: Discussion
2.15-2.45pm: Refreshments
2.45-3.45pm: Visualising Mass Communication
Rafael Lacruz-Rengel - Looking at the world through new coloured 'glasses': TV set adverts in 1960s Britain
Annebella Pollen - "The book the nation is waiting for": One Day for Life: Photographs by the People of Britain
3.45-4.00pm: Discussion
4.00pm: Wine reception
